Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Holy sacrament university shortly held in public land (9) 5. A mate for father, approaching fifty (3) 7. It's a roundabout way of producing wine (4) 8. Get over suit being made to look like glass (8) 10. Association for infantry going to the dance (8) 11. Practise boxing a piece of wood on board (4) 13. Made a hasty attempt at being thrown to the ground (6) 15. Sacred beetle discovered by rating following the mark (6) 18. Block of modelling-wood returned with end missing (4) 19. Being unforthcoming, put it back in not so long ago (8) 22. With loving thoughts of Tim, no car gets ordered (8) 23. A whole lot of people seen at Epsom, perhaps (4) 24. Animals generally furnish us rustic beginners (3) 25. Vegetable? No: a barbed version of it (5,4)

DOWN

1. Assailed with banter, chef would almost fade out (7) 2. Words on shield show abstainer in low setting (5) 3. Cold? It depends: it will disappear with the thaw (6) 4. There is an informer breaking rank (4) 5. Do well to be affectedly nice about the South (7) 6. He doesn't get the prize by switching roles (5) 9. Fountains, say, get a rating by getting around the East (5) 12. Biting it is sour right in the middle (5) 14. Have difficulty speaking of stream changed around end of exam (7) 16. Being interposed, wager you and I get two directions (7) 17. Fine wool gets more in a tangle (6) 18. Shoots up a line on a stroke (5) 20. Artfully escape it even as debt appears in halves (5) 21. One who looks down his nose at man at last? (4)